Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

[Lightbringer]

@jon_slider

USA is #1 in the number of Corona Cases, thanks to Stupid people.

[Joshk]

@John75

Covid-19 is a just a branded flu used to drastically stress the population. Covid’s medialization is a terror campaign at a supra-national level. Only the most stupid idiots can’t realize that.

By the way, since the beginning of this “Worldwide Joke” I have never worn a facemask. Stronger than ever and having fun looking at idiots believers smelling their dirty breath in their useless mask.

That rude rant doesn’t sound very becoming of a man that claims he can see the boogeyman where nobody else can. Could you enlighten us to your occupation? Surely your intellect has gotten you far in life.

[hank]

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surpass Summer Peak And Are Climbing Higher Fast

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Coronavirus cases are rising precipitously in the U.S., and have now surpassed the high levels logged in the summer when daily new cases hovered above 65,000 on average for nearly two weeks.

After a dip in new cases in September, the country now is logging an average of nearly 70,000 new cases a day, and health experts worry this surge could last longer and grip more of the country than in the spring or summer. And the average daily case count has climbed 41% over the past two weeks, according to an NPR analysis….
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The trend line looks quite vertical,” says Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It looks like this third surge is on track to be higher than the one in late July.”

[hank]

In the U.S., the past week has been the worst seven-day stretch of the pandemic so far, with a daily average of 69,804 new cases reported.

The Covid-19 Pandemic - The New York Times

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

By Denise LuAug. 12, 2020
Estimated deaths above normal, March 1 to July 25

…the official death counts may be substantially underestimating the overall effects of the virus, as people die from the virus as well as by other causes linked to the pandemic.

When the coronavirus took hold in the United States in March, the bulk of deaths above normal levels, or “excess deaths,” were in the Northeast, as New York and New Jersey saw huge surges.

The Northeast still makes up nearly half of all excess deaths in the country, though numbers in the region have drastically declined since the peak in April. …

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 - The New York Times

From late January through early October, there were nearly 300,000 “excess deaths” in the U.S., according to the CDC study published Tuesday, or almost 75,000 more than the known death toll from the novel coronavirus. The findings confirmed some of what has become common knowledge about the novel coronavirus — its disproportionate impact on minority communities and the elderly — but also raised new questions.

Researchers were able to attribute about two-thirds of the deaths directly to COVID-19 but were left to speculate about the remaining one-third.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/coronavirus-nearly-300000-e2-80-98excess-deaths-e2-80-99-in-us-since-january-cdc-says/ar-BB1agKdb

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Updated Oct. 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic caused nearly 300,000 deaths in the United States through early October, federal researchers said on Tuesday.

The new tally includes not only deaths known to have been directly caused by the coronavirus, but also roughly 100,000 fatalities that are indirectly related and would not have occurred if not for the virus.

The study, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is an attempt to measure “excess deaths” — deaths from all causes that statistically exceed those normally occurring in a certain time period. The total included deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, that were misclassified or missed altogether.

Many experts believe this measure tracks the pandemic’s impact more accurately than official Covid-19 death reports do, and they warn that the death toll may continue an inexorable climb if policies are not put in effect to contain the spread.

“This is one of several studies, and the bottom line is there are far more Americans dying from the pandemic than the news reports would suggest,” said Dr. Steve Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, whose own research recently reached similar conclusions about excess deaths.

“We’re likely to reach well over 400,000 excess deaths by the end of the year” if current trends continue, Dr. Woolf said.

Paul Sutton, deputy director of the division of vital statistics at the C.D.C. and an author of the analysis, said the study had set out to gauge the number of deaths that “we would not have expected to see under normal circumstances.”

The results indicate that the pandemic “is having a tremendous and significant impact on death in the country, and it may extend well beyond those deaths that are directly classified as Covid deaths,” Dr. Sutton said.

The analysis highlights two disturbing trends. The researchers discovered a high percentage of excess deaths in an unexpected group: young adults in the prime of life. And the coronavirus has greatly raised deaths over all among people of color.

The Pandemic’s Real Toll? 300,000 Deaths, and It’s Not Just From the...

[SubLGT]

@jon_slider

The problem with Stupid People is they are too Stupid to know how Stupid they are. And too Stupid to learn any better.

Trying to educate a Stupid Person who is too Stupid to know how Stupid they are, is almost as Stupid as the Stupid People.

USA is #1 in the number of Corona Cases, thanks to Stupid people.

Good summary.
I posted this back in June, from Wikipedia:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a bias in thinking, usually where a person is unaware of how badly they grasp a subject, not understanding that they are failing at it.

They mistakenly think that they are doing as well as “average” or even “above average”.

It is a psychological effect in which people don’t realize their level of knowledge or ability in a subject.

People who know little about a subject will think that they know more than they actually know.

People of low ability may not have enough intelligence to fully grasp how complicated something can be, causing them to overestimate their knowledge or ability.

This can cause them to underestimate the intelligence of a high ability person who claims something is complicated when they falsely believe they understand it fully.

This effect was shown in an experiment that was done by Justin Kruger and David Dunning at Cornell University.1

In the year 2000, Dunning and Kruger were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in the field of psychology for their study.

[1] Kruger, Justin; Dunning, David 1999. Unskilled and unaware of It: how difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6): 1121–34

[MtnDon (Don Miller)]

to SubLGT and jon_slider and hank…… among others

[Joshk]

[John75]

@Joshk

@John75

Covid-19 is a just a branded flu used to drastically stress the population. Covid’s medialization is a terror campaign at a supra-national level. Only the most stupid idiots can’t realize that.

By the way, since the beginning of this “Worldwide Joke” I have never worn a facemask. Stronger than ever and having fun looking at idiots believers smelling their dirty breath in their useless mask.

That hateful rant doesn’t sound very becoming of a man that claims he can see the boogeyman where nobody else can. Could you enlighten us to your occupation? Surely your intellect has gotten you far in life.

What are you using the word “hateful”? Are you sick ? Seriously ?

[cabfrank]

He could have worded it better, but, why not just answer him, instead of arguing?

[John75]

@cabfrank

He could have worded it better, but, why not just answer him, instead of arguing?

DEFINITION ARGUING:
verb
gerund or present participle: arguing

give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one’s view.

The question is, why did he use the word “hateful” ?

[hank]

Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Credit: Alyson Hurt and Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surpass Summer Peak And Are Climbing Higher Fast

[cabfrank]

@John75

@cabfrank

He could have worded it better, but, why not just answer him, instead of arguing?

DEFINITION ARGUING:
verb
gerund or present participle: arguing

give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one’s view.

The question is, why did he use the word “hateful” ?

Okay. He could have worded it better, but why not just answer him?

[John75]

@cabfrank

@John75

@cabfrank

He could have worded it better, but, why not just answer him, instead of arguing?

DEFINITION ARGUING:
verb
gerund or present participle: arguing

give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one’s view.

The question is, why did he use the word “hateful” ?

Okay. He could have worded it better, but why not just answer him?

No, that is not “okey”. He accused me to be “hateful”. That is offending and rude.

[John75]

@hank

Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Credit: Alyson Hurt and Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surge Past Summer's Records : Shots - Health News : NPR

Johns Hopkins University “figures” are biased and therefore ineligible to further debate.

For information : Gates Foundations Give Johns Hopkins* $20 Million Gift* to School of Public Health for Population, Reproductive Health Institute

DEFINITION : conflict of interest

noun
a situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible.
“the conflict of interest between elected officials and corporate lobbyists”

[MascaratumB]

Your idea of accusing others of being biased is unfunded or funded in non factual evidence.
Therefore it may be considered as biased itself and therefore it is ineligible for further debate…

[Henk4U2]

@hank

Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Credit: Alyson Hurt and Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surge Past Summer's Records : Shots - Health News : NPR

That’s not turning the corner. Looks more like a stairway to heaven.
This is no longer a race to the moon, or to Mars, we’re all going to heaven!

I’m waiting for Klaatu to zap the earth.
Because it is filled with people who use post-it’s to remember
the difference between picking their nose and scratching their a$$.

EDIT: let it be clear I’m NOT referring to the esteemed members of this forum.

[John75]

@MascaratumB

Your idea of accusing others of being biased is unfunded or funded in non factual evidence.
Therefore it may be considered as biased itself and therefore it is ineligible for further debate…

What “may be” is one thing… What “really is” is another thing.

$20 Million “gift” is real lobbying fact.

DEFINITION LOBBYING :

Lobbying,

any attempt by individuals or private interest groups to influence the decisions of government; in its original meaning it referred to efforts to influence the votes of legislators, generally in the lobby outside the legislative chamber.

[MascaratumB]

@John75

@MascaratumB

Your idea of accusing others of being biased is unfunded or funded in non factual evidence.
Therefore it may be considered as biased itself and therefore it is ineligible for further debate…

What “may be” is one thing… What “really is” is another thing.

$20 Million “gift” is really a lobbying fact.

Well, then pick all the other data provided by institutions funded by public money all over the world. Maybe that is less biased…

And honestly, even if there are chances of being biased due to the funds, you are making a serious accusation of falsehood and dishonesty. That can be considered offending and rude too.

And about the definition above, although not being completely wrong, maybe it is better to start picking some credible sources, that do not use words that are, itself, biased, and that provide more clear definitions:

CONFLIT OF INTEREST:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-conflict-of-interest

EDIT: LOBBYING:

lobbying

[kennybobby]

Alex, i’ll take Trolling for $400…

[raccoon]

@kennybobby

Alex, i'll take Trolling for $400... !

Exactly!

(and I don't think you can post videos that way.)